I think onyx also checks for corrupted plist file sas well. I do this every time i run theprogram every month or so.
good luck and hope the problem is fixed. On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi David, > > I haven't been following this thread, but if your initial problem was not > being able to read your Address Book, and you tried to solve it by creating a > new user account, it sounds to me as though the original problem was that the > preferences for your Address Book got corrupted. A corrupted plist file is > the second most common source of problems on the Mac (although it's far less > common than having to repair permissions, which is the first most common fix > that most users will have to do). Since the way this affects your > application can be quite diverse, the most common way of checking that the > problem is specific to your account, and not a bug in the application, is to > do what you've done, and try to run the application from another account. If > the application works without problems, then there's some local setting in > your account that is the source of the problem -- most likely your > preferences file for this app, since this is individual to each user. > > The fix is to go to your Library/Preferences folder and look for some file > containing the application name. From your home directory (Command-Shift-H), > you can use the Command-Shift-G "Go to Folder" shortcut in Finder, and type > or paste in: > Library/Preferences > into the dialog window that pops up, and then press return, to navigate to > your folder. > In this case the likely files are com.apple.AddressBook.plist and > com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist. (I think the "abd" stands for "Address Book > data". If you're having trouble updating the address book information, that > might be the applicable file, but either of the two could be responsible.) > While your Address Book application closed, copy one or both of these files > to another location, like your Desktop or any other folder, and delete the > versions of these files that are in your Library/Preferences folder. Launch > your Address Book application and check to see whether the problems have gone > away. If the Mac does not find a plist file for an application when you open > it, your system will create a new plist file with the default preference > settings. If your app now works, one of the two files was corrupted. To find > out which one, and get your preferences back, quit Address Book and delete > one of the new versions of a file, like com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist from > your Preferences Library and copy back the original version that you saved > to your Desktop or other location. Then launch Address Book again, and check > whether things are still working. > > Because plist files hold your preferences for using an application, they're > opened and closed every time you access that application. This is why it's > possible for the file to become corrupted if you exit in an odd way -- most > times things are OK, but these files are opened and saved so many times that > there's a small chance that they won't be closed correctly and become > corrupted if you use an application frequently enough over a long enough time. > > There's also an old software (freeware) program called Preferential Treatment > that can check for corrupted plist files: > http://www.jonn8.com/html/pt.html > > However, usually by the time you have this problem, you end up doing the fix > by hand. HTH. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Oct 20, 2010, David Hole wrote: > >> Hi. >> Something new to add here.. >> I have another user on my Mac, and when I tried logging in whit that one >> everything worked well. >> I don't want to create a whole new user just becoz of that. >> So, where can I find the settings for AB and set to "default" so it maybe >> works as it should? >> Thanks in advance. >> David >> >> Den 06.10.2010 22:55, skrev Colin M: >>> Hi David! >>> Me again, I do not know either that you know about this or that it will >>> work if you do not! >>> I've only discovered this myself and if anyone else reading this does not >>> no , this may be of interest to them! >>> In the address book preferences after interacting with the tool bar, >>> there's an option called accounts and in there you can sync. [ on my Mac ] >>> Mobile me, gmail and yahoo! >>> So to you david have you looked in there to see if you've got that one use >>> sincd with your address book! >>> If you tried that as well then my limited knowledge has come to an end! >>> Oh well here's to you getting it sorted! :] >>> Colin >>> On 6 Oct 2010, at 21:17, David Hole wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Colin and rest of ye. >>>> That solution just removes the fields in general. >>>> I will remove a specific field for a specific contact, and that is just >>>> impossible. >>>> A month or so ago, I was able to do so, but a week ago, it wasn't :( >>>> Could there maybe be some settings I've done somewhere? >>>> I don't know if it helps when I say that I sync my contacts with >>>> www.soocial.com with their sync-app? >>>> I've been through the settings for that app, but nothing there seems to >>>> have something with the address book in it self to do. >>>> Kind regards David >>>> >>>> Den 06.10.2010 20:55, skrev Colin M: >>>>> Hi David! >>>>> If you go to the address book preferences with the command [ command+ >>>>> comma ] >>>>> Sit on the tool bar and interact with it, you should be on general, right >>>>> arrow to the template button and vo+ spacebar and you should be in the >>>>> template and you can remove all kinds of fields in there! >>>>> I've just removed associate field, so hopefully that will solve your >>>>> problem! >>>>> Also I've seen a table of fields to the left of the template scroll area, >>>>> so there might be an field in there you might want to [ or not ] add! :] >>>>> Colin hth >>>>> On 6 Oct 2010, at 19:10, David Hole wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi guys, and thanks for all the answers. >>>>>> Actually nothing of that seems to work for me :( >>>>>> I can edit contact information as usual, but I can't click the add new >>>>>> field or remove-button. >>>>>> Let's say, I have a contact that have 2 mail-adresses. Then I want to >>>>>> remove one of them since the contact don't use that anymore. >>>>>> When moving to the remove-button, I just can't click it. It's like >>>>>> greyed out :( >>>>>> Still hope someone can help me out with his. >>>>>> Kind regards David > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
